yeah.....thats what I figured! Thanks for the verification! Have a good one, Cleve
At 03:25 PM 11/16/2003 -0600, you wrote: >Challison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >About all you can count on is that such things live under /etc. > > > I think I just answered my own question: > > > > hardlinked files to a single specific inode ARE the same > > file......reference is to the inode (the actual file). As long as any > > single filename associated with a specific inode exist then that file > > exists and is useable. > > > > symlinked files refer one filename to another filename......reference > > is a filename. In this case, there is an actual original > > file....deleting the file pointed to makes the symlinked file useless. > > > > > > In both situations, I can edit any of the hardlinked files or > > symlinked files and still be editing all the relative files at the > > same time....I am, in effect, only editing a single file. > > > > > > So, provided I have this correct, it was very eductional but did not > > necessarily answer my original query. > > > > Is there a single best place to edit network related files on any > > distribution of linux, that will allow me to be assured that the files > > I am looking for will be there? > > I guess I mean a standard directory (under /etc ?) that I can go to > > regardless of distribution, to edit these files......and if anyone has > > a quick list of those filename then that would be helpful......... > > > > I'm expecting to hear that on LSB compliant distros then you can go > > here, on gentoo, bsd and maybe slack you can go here and on RH and MDK > > you go here. > > > > The whole reason I'm going here is because I do a bit of non-official > > support on RH7.2, RH7.3 on a couple of servers in our data > > center......direct and total support of some kind of *BSD as part of > > our F5 BigIP load balancing devices, and now I am directly in the > > middle of setting up a RH 8 utility server to run OpenNMS, Rancid, and > > some TACACS+ package that I have yet to choose. About to get really > > knee deep and can't wait. BTW, yesterday I finally got my Cisco 3005 > > VPN configured so that I could use the Cisco vpn client for linux > > (4.0.3.B) to create an ipsec tunnel through into our > > network..........can I tell ya? Its SWEET!!!!!!! I'm pretty pumped > > about it too, if you could already tell!!! > > > > Cleve > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > >-- >Scott Harney<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >"...and one script to rule them all." >gpg key fingerprint=7125 0BD3 8EC4 08D7 321D CEE9 F024 7DA6 0BC7 94E5 > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
